Played Wrong

Ear Training for Advanced Music Students and Musicians

Train your ear across 79 exclusive classical excerpts performed by professional musicians, spanning 5 genres. Perfect your sense of rhythm, harmony, melody and style. 2 training modes, 79 exercises and 980 mistakes to spot. All completely free.

Orchestra

  • 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto in E Major - 3rd Movement

  • 2

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 5 - 2nd Movement

  • 3

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 5 - 2nd Movement

  • 4

    Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No. 3 - 1st Movement

  • 5

    Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 94 - 3rd Movement

  • 6

    Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 104 (“London”) - 2nd Movement

  • 7

    Georg Friedrich Händel

    Sinfonia from ‘Messiah’

  • 8

    Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 4 - 3rd Movement

  • 9

    Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

    Violin Concerto - 1st Movement

  • 10

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Concerto, KV 313 - 1st Movement

  • 12

    Richard Strauss

    Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

  • 13

    Peter Iljitj Tjajkovskij

    Symphony No. 4 - 2nd Movement

Orchestra

The ever-greater sharpening of one's attentiveness and sensitivity to the relationship between what one is hearing and its representation in the score is a lifelong project for any classical musician. Played Wrong? is a collection of exercises meant to serve that end.

Played Wrong? presents a series of quotations – some shorter, some longer – of classical works from Bach to Nørgård in score as well as recording. The repertoire comprises orchestral music, choral ­music, chamber music, songs with accompaniment, and piano pieces. For each exercise you can switch between a correct version, in which the score and the recording match with no wrong notes, and an altered version, in which mistakes have been introduced into both the score and the performance.

The challenge, then, is to listen to the altered recording and find the discrepancies in the correct score, or, vice versa, to listen to the correct recording and find the errors in the altered score. Where was the error? What is it that is wrong? What are the musicians playing when they are not playing what is written?